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| Author(s): |
Augusto Veloso Leão
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI) |
| Defense date: | 2017-09-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Pedro Feliú Ribeiro;
Ana Cristina Braga Martes;
Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura
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| Advisor: | Peter Robert Demant |
| Abstract | |
This research aims at understanding and shedding light over some aspects of the immigrant integration process, focusing on the policies developed at local level to guarantee the rights of immigrants and to promote their social esteem, verifying the impact of those two elements in their integration. From this point of view, I observed how a government organises itself to integrate the different immigrant groups, as well as, to mediate the relationship between these groups and other social groups. I argue that this organisation is structured by social perceptions over immigration and, by its turn, exercises a structuring force on the social perceptions. For this research, I worked at the systematization of public policies focused at immigrants in Belgium and Brazil and search for a relationship with the integration of immigrant groups. For this means, I analysed the legislation for entry, permanence and exit in each country to verify the situation of migrant populations in these countries. Similarly, I analysed public policies aimed at immigrant groups (e. g. reception of recently arrived immigrants or political participation policies) to identify different government initiatives for the legal recognition of migrants and the promotion of social esteem for these population. I chose to analyse the immigration and integration policies that are organised by the local and regional authorities in the cities with the biggest migrant communities in both countries, Brussels and São Paulo. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/20518-4 - Migrants' human rights and integration public policies in contemporary democracies |
| Grantee: | Augusto Veloso Leão |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |